When we see through our hearts, we recognize that every single one of us is infused with creativity. Divine Sparks are embedded in everyone and everything. It's up to us to be courageous, to look and listen deeply, to find the sparks, gather and release them back into the universe, transformed into something new. Join me as we wake up to the sacred-ordinary blessings waiting to greet us each and every day.

Enjoy slowing down with your camera, paying
full attention, observing beauty and curiosities many people pass right by.
Your generosity of spirit and keen eyes may open the door to miniscule miracles
and mirth others would not have access to otherwise. Feel free to include
poetry, prose and thoughts your macro photo or series inspire(s) in
you. Writing is completely optional for participation. Straight out of the
camera (SOC), edited, color, black and white, anything goes as long as you
bring the viewer near to whatever it is that drew your heart's attention and
"woke you up" to full presence.

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I agree with Romi Laura, your wonderful meme does remind us to look a little closer to the beauty that escapes us most of the time. Your macros are always magnificent. I will be linking up later. Thank you for linking with Today's Flowers also, appreciate that very much my friend :)

Your red maple flowers are so pretty, the way they are segmented and flair out. The ones in my yard are just white. All the buds are really bursting forth! I'm glad spring is rewarding you with lovely sights.

Oh Laura, these is such a wonderful post!!! Every picture, every word make me smile more and more!!!My eyes are dancing over all these beauty...and I've not enough words to describe what I feel :)Thank you so much for beeing here and for hosting these fantastic meme :)

This is lovely "Straight out of the camera (SOC), edited, color, black and white, anything goes as long as you bring the viewer near to whatever it is that drew your heart's attention and "woke you up" to full presence. " And a beautiful series of springtime... Michelle

Dearest Laura, I just wanted to let you know I've closed my Very Virginia blog (thank you so much for following it - it means a lot!!) But I've created a new blog which I hope will now be my home for many moons to come... xxxhttp://womanofartandmind.blogspot.co.uk/

To walk slowly... and see the forest through your eyes... is divine. I love the tadpole eggs... brings back memories for me. And I love the flower buds that look like little faerie crowns. I love it all Laura and your sweet spirit... xo

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I want to ask you, as clearly as I can, to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were rooms yet to enter or books written in a foreign language. Don't dig for answers that can't be given you yet: you live them now. For everything must be lived. Live the questions now, perhaps then, someday, you will gradually, without noticing, live into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives. ~ Brené Brown

Just to be is a blessing.

Just to live is holy.

~ Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

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"Holiness isn't something ephemeral or amorphous that exists out there in the ether or the firmament. Holiness is what occurs in the moment of alchemy when any of us chooses to be fully present to another." ~ Leaf Seligman, Opening the Window

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I made an interesting discovery one day when writing to a KMCC client. When I entered the word"scatteredness" spell-check insisted on changing it to"sacredness".Indeed, thesmall, scatteredmoments ofcreativityandawareness that make up our days are often where sacredness can be found.

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It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

~Ani Pema Chödrön

(Read about the Chipmunk King and view a video of Ani Pema discussing thishere)

Remnants

Before the eMeS, my now constant companion begged me to stay close to home, I taught art, yoga and meditation to Jewish teens in the Greater Boston area. The collage series in the slide show above was created using forgotten paper scraps that slipped between the cracks of the tables onto the floor, from an Art as a Sacred Practice class I taught to High School students several years ago. My intention was to find the intrinsic value in each remnant. Often the beauty of an individual person goes unrecognized or unappreciated until it is revealed in the context of a relationship; the same is true of colors, shapes and textures. Click on the images to take a closer look. They are tiny works, some no bigger than 1.5” x 1.5”

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